Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again it would not matter if the person were a US citizen or not , so long as he or she lived in the US the classification would stand . |
| 2 | Many of them were difficult to reconcile with orthodox Marxism , but on the other hand , the Soviet Communist Party , for instance , had long since annexed the great Russians of the past to grace the progress towards Stalin or Khruschev or Brezhnev ( or whoever reigned in the Kremlin ) , Ceauşescu 's hagiographers chose Alexander the Great , Napoleon , Julius Caesar and Abraham Lincoln ( among others ) to compare with Romania 's new president — in fact , he combined in himself all of their virtues . |
| 3 | The dormitories were empty and nothing stirred in the main corridor . |
| 4 | So Grandma and Grandad had one bedroom , Mother , Father and me slept in the other one , and the two brothers slept downstairs . |
| 5 | show them the garden , by Saturday night I felt shattered for it and I 'd come home and I looked in the cupboard and I said Ton well what do you want for your dinner then ? |
| 6 | The Sheikha and I got in the back while the Sheikh took the wheel . |
| 7 | Melissa unfolded it and strapped the twins in when we reached the village and I parked in the pub car park , as instructed by Carol . |
| 8 | I could n't get to sleep , and I noticed in the air there was a red light flashing , and several other green lights flashing , and they were coming , helicopter noises , and er I watched them for several minutes and they seemed to be landing and one was stationary in the air , without moving , and rest were going up and down . |
| 9 | Well I by good luck have had some copies of the petition sent down to me , so I started it , it immediately and I had in the first they made over one thousand one hundred and twenty five signatures . |
| 10 | Liz and I followed in the support vehicle , a splendid Vauxhall Frontera turbo diesel which was kindly lent by our friends at Vauxhall Motors who have also adopted CRMF as their Charity of the Year . |
| 11 | ‘ Mais oui , ’ he said , and I shrugged in the sunlight , trying to disregard the foreign mists of foreboding . |
| 12 | ‘ Burt and I met in the early Seventies and became really good friends . |
| 13 | She and I walked in the ancient garden , talking quietly about our childhood meetings . |
| 14 | Shelley , Shelley come round to me right , and she was , she was , she was stroking Dempsey and I walked in the room , this is Dempsey and he walked past me wagging his , you know when they put the tail down and |
| 15 | We walked here through the gardens and the woods , past the hill where Andy and I lay in the sunlight all those summers ago , into the little glen , then up through the bushes and the dead auburn wreckage of the ferns , to the trees at the summit of the small hill . |
| 16 | And I said in the holiday , Oh yes I do . |
| 17 | Mr. Jones and his boys and I went in the afternoon to take tea with a sexton , a shoemaker who lived in one of the suburbs . |
| 18 | I thought , something 's up with my mum , and I went in the house . |
| 19 | I said so I 've been to a local firm and he said well if you 'd wanted a job we could 've found you one , so I went to the Co-op and I went in the credit , working in the Co-op credit and er went from there to . |
| 20 | However I try it and I went in the shop and . |
| 21 | He does n't have to do anything , but about four Christmas 's ago I had the whole lot down , I had nine of us for the whole Christmas week , erm , Boxing Day I went in the kitchen , two of Diane 's friends had arrived , who lived in London and I went in the kitchen , I 'd had a bad dose of the flu virus that was |
| 22 | Well I say , if we did and you just took it in and I went in the next day and picked it up . |
| 23 | So with a little adding up and subtracting you will see that there were five children in the family and I came in the middle , being the third child . |
| 24 | That afternoon she and I devised in the small front room of our lodgings ( pliant landlady , audience of children ) a double act : the Carruthers Sisters . |
| 25 | The fire man and I rolled in the wet undergrowth . |
| 26 | You only got one shot — this was live television — and I stood in the wings , rigid with fear , listening to my heart booming . |
| 27 | ‘ father brought me up here on his back in the spring one year , and I sat in the moor while he and old Donald were digging peats . |
| 28 | I saw her and I , I be honest with you I hid , I be totally honest and I 'll tell her the same if I see her because I 've just found out then that they could n't do any more for me dad and I really did n't want to speak or see anybody and I sat in the canteen on my own , I just said to me mum , mum on the phone I said mum I need to do this on my own I said I 'm just gon na have a coffee in the cafeteria and I do n't know if you 've been in there but the cafeteria is all glass and she pulled up in a white van delivering something to the office , I thought oh no it 's Jenny she 's the last bleeding person I want there , I do n't mean that |
| 29 | That summer I could only think he was mad as he set off around the town and I dozed in the dark heat and stillness of the garden . |
| 30 | The woman with whom we boarded took pity on me and I worked in the house with her . |